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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

Brian McKnight

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Brian McKnight
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 5
Actor
Composer
Film Producer
Guitarist
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Buffalo
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Another
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For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.
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I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say Oh yeah he has a good song! I'd be happy with that.
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Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.
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I'm never satisfied with what I do.
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I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
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I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
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I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
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When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
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I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.
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My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.
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I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.
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I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
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I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.
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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.
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I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.
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I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.
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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
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Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.
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By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
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